Taking an Extended Embodied Perspective of Touch: Connection-Disconnection in iVR

Embodied and disembodied cognition: spatial perspective-taking.

Although people can take spatial perspectives different from their own, it is widely assumed that egocentric perspectives are natural and have primacy. Two studies asked respondents to describe the spatial relations between two objects on a table in photographed scenes; in some versions, a person sitting behind the objects was either looking at or reaching for one of the objects. The mere prese...

Embodied Perspective Taking in Learning About Complex Systems

An Embodied Bisexual Perspective

The embodied nature of spatial perspective taking: embodied transformation versus sensorimotor interference.

Humans are able to mentally adopt the spatial perspective of others and understand the world from their point of view. We propose that spatial perspective taking (SPT) could have developed from the physical alignment of perspectives. This would support the notion that others have put forward claiming that SPT is an embodied cognitive process. We investigated this issue by contrasting several ac...

Inducing User ' s Perspective Taking from an Embodied Agent by Filling in a Blank Thought Balloon

Attempting to take the perspective of others often provides people with novel cues for discovering and solving problems. However, human cognitive limitations and differences in individual attitudes make this difficult. In this study, a psychological experiment was conducted to examine how blank thought balloons emitted from an embodied agent encourages a user to change hislher perspective. Part...